{"data":{"id":"27757","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":27757,"topgoose_id":2619,"portfolio_id":null,"tms_id":27757,"title":"Triad","display_artist_text":"Anne Truitt","display_date":"1977","accession_number":"2006.33","dimensions":"Overall: 90 9/16 × 8 × 8 in. (230 × 20.3 × 20.3 cm)","medium":"Acrylic paint on wood","department":"collection","classification":"Sculpture","credit_line":"Gift of Ann and Gilbert Kinney","is_virtual":false,"is_portfolio":false,"portfolio_tms_id":null,"portfolio":null,"edition":null,"publication_info":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnne Truitt, \u003cem\u003eTriad\u003c/em\u003e, 1977. Acrylic paint on wood, overall: 90 9/16 × 8 × 8 in. (230 × 20.3 × 20.3 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Ann and Gilbert Kinney 2006.33. © Estate of Anne Truitt; courtesy Bridgeman Images\u003c/p\u003e","object_label":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTriad \u003c/i\u003eis an important example of Anne Truitt’s best-known sculptural form, the column, which she consistently explored for nearly four decades beginning in the early 1960s. While the human-size geometric shape made for a ready comparison with the work of contemporaneous Minimalist artists, Truitt favored allusive, evocative titles and did not use the methods of industrial fabrication preferred by practitioners such as Donald Judd and Robert Morris. \u003ci\u003eTriad\u003c/i\u003e is wood coated with multiple layers of a warm beige acrylic paint that seems to pulsate with undertones of pale pink. “What I want is color in three dimensions,” the artist explained in 1979, “color set free, to a point where, theoretically, the support should dissolve into pure color.” A thin band of red, inset near the base of the plinth, enables an optical trick that makes \u003ci\u003eTriad\u003c/i\u003e appear as if it is rising from the floor, overcoming volume and ascending into the realm of “pure color” that Truitt sought to achieve.\u0026nbsp; \u003c/p\u003e","ai_alt_text":"A tall, narrow pale pink rectangular column stands centered on a gray floor against a gray wall.","alt_text":null,"visual_description":null,"on_view":false,"created_at":"2017-08-30T15:41:04.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-02-06T11:59:32.430-05:00","images":[{"id":107815,"url":"https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/27757/2006_33_vw1_cropped.jpg"}]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"1344","type":"artist"}]}}}}